Postdoc Opportunities in Linguistics in Switzerland

The Jacobs Foundation Research Fellowship Program is a globally competitive fellowship for early career researchers working to improve the development, learning, and living conditions of children and youth. The fellowship supports research across a broad interdisciplinary scope, including education sciences, psychology, economics, sociology, family studies, media studies, political science, linguistics, neurosciences, and medical sciences . It is intended for researchers developing projects that...

The Department of Philosophy at the University of Zurich is recruiting two postdoctoral researchers for the SNSF-funded projects Shining Light on Praise and The Social Power of Praise . The projects sit at the intersection of moral philosophy and experimental philosophy, examining the nature, mechanisms, and social impact of moral praise. The Zurich positions are dedicated to empirical and experimental research. Postdoctoral researchers will conduct high-quality research on moral praise, co-auth...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab at EPFL Lausanne , within a research environment that emphasizes state-of-the-art work, international collaboration, and interaction with renowned experts. The lab is presented as part of a strong team of postdoctoral researchers and PhD students, offering a dynamic setting for research at the intersection of digital methods and cognitive approaches to music. The project focus is centered on musicology with a digital...

The Rhine AI research group, led by Prof. I. Bogunovic in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel, Switzerland, invites applications for a postdoctoral position in machine learning and artificial intelligence. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, focuses on the post-training of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs) and improving their reasoning capabilities. The postdoctoral researcher will develop reinforcement-learning meth...

Senior Research Fellow (Oberassistenz) in Cultural Studies and European Ethnology at the University of Basel, Switzerland. This is a postdoctoral opening (60%) starting in the spring semester of 2027, with the appointment beginning on 1.2.2027. The post is designed for researchers aiming to complete a habilitation while contributing to a dynamic department working across culture, everyday life, politics, globalization, migration, mobility, anthropology of knowledge, science and technology studie...

Postdoctoral opening in AI and interpretation , with a focus on LLM interpretability and explainability , in a project that combines technical and humanistic perspectives. The position is part of an SNSF-funded project and is described as a four-year postdoc with access to a strong STS, media studies, and digital humanities ecosystem in Basel. Institution/location: University of Basel, Switzerland. Funding: salary range of approximately CHF 68,000 to 78,000 per year, with good working and living...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in NLP and Human-Centered AI at the University of St.Gallen (School of Computer Science), Switzerland, within the SNSF-funded CREST-AI project led by Prof. Christina Niklaus . The project focuses on user modeling , LLM reasoning , neuro-symbolic NLP , semantic representation, and interpretable models of users’ beliefs, uncertainty, and misconceptions from dialogue. A key goal is to develop human-centered evaluation methods for personalized AI and adaptive explana...

Postdoctoral Researcher position in Conversational AI and LLMs at the University of St.Gallen (School of Computer Science), Switzerland, within the SNSF-funded CREST-AI project. The project focuses on natural language processing , large language models , dialogue systems , natural language generation , and reinforcement learning . The successful candidate will help develop grounded, adaptive conversational systems that tailor explanations to users’ understanding, with legal language as a testbed...

Postdoctoral Researcher in NLP and Human-Centered AI at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland . This postdoctoral opening is part of CREST-AI and focuses on Natural Language Processing , Human-Centered AI , LLM reasoning , neuro-symbolic NLP , user modeling , and interpretable models of users’ beliefs, uncertainty, and misconceptions from dialogue. The successful candidate will conduct research with Prof. Christina Niklaus , coordinate selected research activities, develop human-centered e...